NDC executives call for dismissal of DCE
Branch executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in both the Manso Nkwanta and Manso Adubia constituencies in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region have called for the immediate dismissal of the District Chief Executive, Mr Charles Oti-Prempeh.
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“We have critically analysed the work, movement, utterances, personal relations and political activities of the DCE and finally resolved to call on President John Dramani Mahama to, as a matter of urgency, dismiss him from office,” the executive stated at a press conference at Manso Nkwanta, the district capital.
The group accused the DCE of showing gross disrespect and total neglect towards party executives and members in the two constituencies.
This, according to the branch executive, resulted in the shameful performance of the DCE in the party’s parliamentary primaries in November 2011 in which the DCE polled 216 votes, representing 32 per cent as against his contestant, Alex Kwame Bonsu who obtained 467 votes, representing 68 per cent for the then Amansie West Constituency.
The branch secretary, Mr Richmond Ofosu Kesse, said the DCE had developed divide and rule tactics among party officers and the party hierarchy.
He accused the DCE of consulting only three executives – the party chairman, vice chairman and deputy youth organiser - in decision making and sidelining the rest of party executives of the Manso Adubia Constituency.
He also accused the DCE for conspiring with one F.L. Anin, a government appointee, and deducted GHc 5.00 every month from each of the spraying gangs for the past four years under the pretext of paying the accumulated sum into the party’s coffers but nothing of that sort had been recorded by the party.
Mr Kesse alleged that the DCE colluded with the Manso Nkwanta Constituency Chairman of the party to embezzle GH¢10,000.00 meant for the campaign in which the two did not take part, adding that the DCE, as the representative of the President, failed to participate in the 2012 general election, and dared him to point to about 10 communities he had visited to canvass for the party during the election.
He blamed the DCE for co-operating with the Assembly Member for Manso Atwere Electoral Area to extort GH¢30.00 from 400 prospective applicants for electricity, and that NDC faithful who refused to pay the said amount were not supplied with the metres.
He added that the DCE and the Manso Nkwanta party chairman had sidelined the party in the awards of contracts, saying that “with these and many others, we call on His Excellency the
President, to as a matter of urgency, dismiss the District Chief Executive, Charles Oti-Prempeh, from office”.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the Daily Graphic, the DCE denied and dismissed all the allegations and described them as falsehoods.
He said they were acts concocted by his adversaries to dent his hard-won reputation, especially in his bid to seek another term of office as DCE.
On the accusation of his failure to participate in the 2012 elections campaign in particular, he said he made four billboards of the then NDC presidential candidate, John Mahama, in the area and supplied over 3,000 posters of the NDC presidential candidate throughout the district.
Story: Joseph Kyei-Boateng
